OUR COMMITMENT TO REPAIR

We want to make high quality clothing and should anything in our items break down, we want to better understand why and address the issue.

If you are in need of repairs, we will work with your local tailors and seamstresses to amend the problem.

We want to improve the longevity and quality of our pieces, support local economies through your neighborhood tailors and seamstresses and cut down on emissions and the environmental impacts of additional shipping. Contact us, if any issues emerge.

Repairing clothing and choosing to avoid the landfill whenever possible helps to protect our environment. Repair as a practice and appreciation for imperfection(s) - in the spirit of the Japanese concept of Kaizen - is environmentally friendly, money-saving, personally satisfying and can be accomplished through a ranges of means.

The Right to Repair movement and iFixit communities are resources we rely on and support. In attempts to hold onto our products as long as possible, we’ve opened up our computers and phones to replace parts like batteries, hard drives, screens and installed more efficient parts like SSDs in our laptops. It’s not difficult to do and these are incredibly satisfying projects, especially with the help of resources like iFixit.

Unfortunately, companies are making it harder and even illegal to repair our own possessions. Supporting Right to Repair initiatives helps a range of people (from techies to farmers) maintain and extend the life-spans of equipment and devices while reducing costs and landfill contributions. Having the right to repair also supports thriving repair economies (think 3rd-party repair shops and manufacturing which create more jobs), increases the value of used products, decreases prices and increases the quality of services[1]. It expands our understanding of how things are made and work - grounding us all a little more firmly in the analog experience of our own capacities, objects, surroundings and the world.

In 2020 new Right to Repair legislation passed for different industries including cars, ventilators and medical device repair to name a few [2]. Now in 2021 the movement is expected to take off with 27 states considering right to repair legislation[1], a new National Right to Repair bill filed in June[3], and a new pro-competition White House Executive Order asking (among other initiatives) for the FTC to create new rules protecting consumers’ right to repair their own devices [4].

[1] Ryssdal, Kai and Wood, Molly (July 13, 2021) “Right to Repair” is about more than DIY Marketplace Make Me Smart Podcast Episode 473 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and-molly/right-to-repair-is-about-more-than-diy/

[2] Proctor, Nathan (December 29, 2020) Right To Repair 2020 Wrap-up: Notable Wins As Campaign Advances US PRIG https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-2020-wrap-notable-wins-campaign-advances

[3] Gault, Matthew (June 17, 2021) National Right-To-Repair Bill Filled in Congress Motherboard Tech by Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e37d/national-right-to-repair-bill-filed-in-congress

[4] Goode, Lauren (July 9, 2021) Joe Biden Wants You To Be Able To Fix Your Own Damn iPhones Wired https://www.wired.com/story/biden-executive-order-right-to-repair/